Neuvillette is trying to find a tactful way to say it, and somehow Clorinde knows instinctively that this is going to be a painful matter of the heart. If it has even managed to frazzle the Chief Justice, it is going to devastate her. "Furina has requested your presence at a duel in three days."

Outside, it has started raining, the rain broadening from a drizzle to a storm in a matter of seconds, the sky going dark. He clears his throat. "That is not all, I'm afraid. I believe the defendant and you are familiar with each other."

Clorinde's lips are already forming her name.

"Navia is being prosecuted for conspiring to traffick Sinthe. She has chosen to prove her innocence in a duel."

A year after Clorinde kills Navia's father in a duel, she is poised to do the same to Navia.